3110 L1 Case Report: Southwest Airlines What is SWA’s competitive strategy? What does it take to execute the competitive strategy? The SWA has adopted ‘Cost Leadership’ as its competitive advantage. And it has achieved low cost through numerous ways. To commence with‚ the Southwest workforce routinely turn around an aircraft in only 15 minutes and its gates are manned by a single agent and have a ground crew of six or fewer‚ which are much lower than other airlines. In other words‚ the SWA needs
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Deregulation of the airlines in 1978 forced the industry to rethink their business strategy in order to be successful during a period of widespread operating losses due to an economic recession‚ striking air traffic controllers and brutal price wars. The poster child for innovation during this period was Astro Airlines founded in 1980 by its charismatic leader‚ Arthur Burton. Enthusiasm‚ excitement and optimism were watch words used to describe the atmosphere at Astro Airlines in the initial years
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The history of the airline industry went through a period described as challenging and soaring. The reason behind this description is the rapid increase in oil price which caused major financial losses and a cut in airline profits. Airlines which declared bankruptcy between 2004 and 2007 have all been a case of such losses. As of 2009‚ in the UK‚ airline analysts expected that airlines will have to face great challenges in the future. An example of this is British Airways which predicted a profit
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ASTRO AIRLINES (case analysis) NAME : MUSTAFA KAYNAKCI DATE : 10.11.2011 Issue in the case The main issue in the case is all about failing to manage success after successful beginning. The leader in Astro Airlines Arthur Burton could not maintain the growth of its company. Being visioner‚ dynamic‚ stirring speaker and inspirational leader of Burton could start the airlines with reduced fare‚ innovating ticketing style‚ low cost service
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The company I chose to research is Southwest airlines. It has been one of the most successful airlines in the US‚ and with very high customer service ratings. This is very impressive to attain by such a small company in a very tough industry. Southwest is able to achieve such levels by having a clear mission of providing low-fare travel using a point-to-point system and not having a hub-based system. The company operates in relatively shorter routes and only maintains one plane type‚ its famous Boing
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Classic Airlines Problem Solution “Every company knows that it costs far less to hold on to a customer than to acquire a new one” (Gokey‚ 2002). As the commercial airline industry is changing at a rapid pace‚ Classic Airlines (CA) is faced with the challenge of delivering increased value within leaner consumer budgets. According to Plunkett Research Online‚ travel industry expenditures are decreasing and e-commerce is gradually replacing many jobs. With this report in mind‚ CA is set
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carrier for air travelling passengers. Prior to 2006 there were three low cost airlines operating within the country‚ on 15 November 2006 funded by SAA the emerging of Mango airlines took place. Tickets sales for the airline were sold out for almost a month‚ the prices of air tickets were either the same or cheaper than any other mode of transport within the country. This boosted consumer confidence and the other airlines weren’t able to compete with Mango’s reduced prices. Mango’s marketing strategies
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Hyundai: Leading the Way in the Global Auto Industry 1. One huge competitive advantage of Hyundai is that they launched step by step‚ since the late 1990’s several factories and plants. In 1997 they established a factory in Turkey‚ later a plant in India and in 2002 was opened
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Primark Corp. was emerging as a leader in the global information services industry in the mid-1990s. Through its four major divisions‚ the company focused its information services on financial‚ weather‚ and information technology markets. Primark also provided miscellaneous transportation and financial services. Primark was basically a utility company until 1987‚ when it exited that business and forged into information services. Primark originated from the early 1980s spin-off of Michigan Consolidated
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AEA 11‚5 9‚4 8‚3 TK 26‚6 35‚3 29‚9 2009 AEA -5‚8 -4‚2 -4‚5 TK 15‚8 15‚2 19‚0 2010 PAX Middle East 2007 4‚1 4‚2 5‚1 15‚5 11‚6 13‚8 -1‚7 3‚0 1‚2 12‚3 19‚7 24‚3 AEA TK AEA TK 2008 2009 AEA TK 2010 PAX Source: AEA= Association of European Airlines (Scheduled Traffic) AEA 7‚6 12‚6 6‚1 14‚0 13‚6 15‚7 8‚2 0‚8 3‚8 TK ASK 2‚7 0‚0 2‚6 8‚9 1H’11 22‚0 17‚4 AEA RPK AEA TK AEA -10 20 9‚9 11‚8 9‚2 30 11‚7 17‚4 18‚0 50 ASK 1H’11 RPK 9‚0 10‚4 9‚1 10 20 30 -10 0
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